Trade and Trade Policy in the 21st Century Conference

Stephen J. Redding and Robert W. Staiger, Organizers

April 8-9, 2022

Cambridge and on Zoom

Friday, April 8
10:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Global Supply Chains
10:30 am	Gene M. Grossman, Princeton University and NBER Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University and NBER Hugo Lhuillier, Columbia University Supply Chain Resilience: Should Policy Promote Diversification or Reshoring?
11:30 am	Break
12:00 pm	Hanwei Huang, City University of Hong Kong Kalina Manova, University College London Frank Pisch, Technical University of Darmstadt Oscar Perello, Inter-American Development Bank Firm Heterogeneity and Imperfect Competition in Global Production Networks
1:00 pm	Lunch (boxed lunches) Lunch Talk: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General, World Trade Organization
	Trade Agreements
2:30 pm	Emanuel Ornelas, Sao Paulo School of Economics John Turner, University of Georgia The Costs and Benefits of Rules of Origin in Modern Free Trade Agreements
3:30 pm	Break
3:45 pm	Meredith Crowley, University of Cambridge Lu Han, Bank of Canada Thomas Prayer, University of Cambridge The Pro-Competitive Effects of Trade Agreements (slides)
4:45 pm	Break
5:00 pm	Renee Bowen, Georgetown University and NBER J. Lawrence Broz, University of California, San Diego Marc-Andreas Muendler, University of California, San Diego and NBER The World Trade Organization and US Domestic Politics (slides)
6:00 pm	Adjourn
Saturday, April 9
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Trade Policy
9:00 am	David Atkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Joaquin Blaum, Boston University Pablo Fajgelbaum, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Augusto Ospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich Protectionism Unchained: Determinants and Consequences of Discretionary Trade Policy in Argentina (slides)
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Mary Amiti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Sang Hoon Kong, Smith College David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER Trade Protection, Stock-Market Returns, and Welfare
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Davin Chor, Dartmouth College and NBER Bingjing Li, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) Illuminating the Effects of the US-China Tariff War on China's Economy
12:30 pm	Lunch - Parkview Room
	Industrial Policy
1:30 pm	Sharon Traiberman, New York University and NBER Martin Rotemberg, New York University Precautionary Protectionism
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Ernest Liu, Princeton University and NBER Song Ma, Yale University and NBER Innovation Networks and Innovation Policy
3:45 pm	Adjourn